Webmin 1.921 and Usermin 1.771 released

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#1 Sat, 07/27/2019 - 01:06
Joe
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Webmin 1.921 and Usermin 1.771 released

Howdy all,

I've rolled out new versions of Webmin and Usermin for all repositories. It's been a while since we've pushed updates of Webmin and Usermin to the Virtualmin repo (because of some minor performance bugs introduced by new features), so there are a few releases worth of changes (though the most significant changes are in the included theme updates):

Webmin changes:

Version 1.921

  • Updated Authentic Theme to the latest version.

Version 1.920 (6th July 2019)

  • Updated the Authentic Theme to the latest version.
  • Added an option to disable (comment out) hosts file entries.
  • Added a monitor type to check if a bootup action is running or not.
  • Translation updates for multiple languages.

Version 1.910 (9th May 2019)

  • Updated the Authentic Theme to the latest version.
  • More translation updates for multiple languages.
  • The next run time of each cron job can be displayed by enabling a new config option.
  • Added a tab for managing APT and YUM repos to the Software Packages module.
  • Added support for file ownership and permission checks to the File or Directory monitor.

Usermin changes:

  • Theme and translation updates

As always, let us know if you run into any problems. Pro users can open a ticket in the issue tracker, or GPL users can start a new forum topic (though bugs are always welcome in the issue tracker here or at github).

Cheers,

Joe

Fri, 08/02/2019 - 16:33
mottion

Hello, The webmin version 1.921-1 when installed does not work Cron Jobs.

I tested it from a clean installation, and it always gives me the same result.

My operating system is CentOS Linux 7.6.1810

regards

Sat, 08/03/2019 - 20:52 (Reply to #2)
RJM Web Design
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What is that result?

--Richard

Sun, 08/04/2019 - 22:31
mottion

it was a problem of the PHP script, with this version the cron jobs don't work

Mon, 08/05/2019 - 05:07
RJM Web Design
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Do the cron jobs return error messages when triggered manually from within Webmin? If you click "Save and Run Now" from within "Edit Cron Job," even without making any changes, it should attempt to run the job. Do you receive any errors or warnings in the black box?

--Richard

Tue, 08/06/2019 - 10:54
mottion

RJM Web Design. First of all thank you very much. Is there a guide for webmin 1,921 and what does Crob Jobs work for? They really aren't working for me the log file doesn't give me an error

The 1.900 version I just have to add the Cron Jobs and they work!

a cordial greeting.

Tue, 08/06/2019 - 21:32 (Reply to #6)
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I don't know of any Webmin guides that are current beyond the official documentation at http://www.webmin.com/docs.html. I have a few books I bought from Amazon, but they're several years old.

As to your script, have you checked the permissions? Once in a while I forget I'm root and plant a script somewhere in the filesystem that can't be executed by the user because of ownership issues. I think that's probably the most common reason why a script (or a symlink, or whatever) "doesn't work," at least in my case.

So the first thing I'd do would be to cd into the directory that contains the script you're trying to execute, and check the ownership and permissions. A quick ls -l should do it. That will reveal both the ownership and permissions.

Also, is this by chance a cron job you imported from cPanel? cPanel uses a non-standard path to PHP (usually something like

/usr/local/bin/ea-php70 /home/[user]/public_html/script.php ).

If you plant that into Webmin (or any standard Linux system's crontab), it will do nothing. The path to PHP doesn't exist. So if this cron job was imported from a cPanel server, I'd try running it with

php -q /home/[user]/public_html/script.php .

I'd also suggest writing a simple script that does something like sends you an email and create a cron job for it to run every minute. If that script works but the one you're trying to cron doesn't, then you know it's a problem in the script.

--Richard

Tue, 08/06/2019 - 21:55 (Reply to #7)
mottion

Thanks again. I come from Cpanel but I am installing everything from the beginning. with permissions you mean the file /usr/bin/crontab

a greeting

Tue, 08/06/2019 - 22:39 (Reply to #8)
RJM Web Design
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You're welcome.

I mean the permissions on the PHP script you're trying to execute. It has to be executable by the user you're trying to execute it as. You can find out by running ls -l while in the same directory as that file.

In RHEL / CentOS, the crontabs are located in /var/spool/cron.

If you are root and want to list the cron jobs of a user, the command would be

crontab -l -u [user]

So if the user is bob,

crontab -l -u bob

Or to edit it,

crontab -e -u [user]

To list or edit the crontab of the user you are currently logged in as, it's simply

crontab -l or crontab -e respectively.

However, you should have no need to do any of this as it can be done through Webmin.

But I suppose it wouldn't hurt to list the crontab just for troubleshooting purposes. Just be careful in there if you're not used to working in the shell. Also, you may want to use nano rather than the default editor (usually vi) if you're new to the shell. Nano's a lot simpler for newcomers to the shell.

--Richard

Tue, 08/06/2019 - 22:44 (Reply to #9)
mottion

I use PuTTy as a console. And if it's as root

Thanks Ricardo

Tue, 08/06/2019 - 22:51 (Reply to #10)
RJM Web Design
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I like PuTTy, but I LOVE Termius.

--Richard

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